K. Hensinger Winfried

Prof Winfried Hensinger obtained his PhD at the University of Queensland in the field of nonlinear quantum dynamics with ultracold atoms. During his PhD, he spent an extended period at NIST in Gaithersburg, USA in the group of Nobel laureate William Phillips. He then spent three years as a FOCUS Research Fellow at the University of Michigan developing ways to scale ion trap quantum computing. In 2005, he moved to the University of Sussex, where he is now Professor of Quantum Technologies. Hensinger heads the Sussex Ion Quantum Technology Group and he is the director of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies. Hensinger’s group works on constructing a practical trapped-ion quantum computer as well developing portable quantum sensors.